In this predominantly Russian-speaking rayon (county), some people got it right: Yanukovich (Rus) or Yanukovych (Ukr).

Others got it wrong. Some people even misspell the Party of Regions!

Yanukovich (it’s Yulia we don’t trust and it’s Yanukovich we respect)Yanikevich Party of the Region Party of Ragions Yanukevich-Party of Regions Fiodorych Party of the Ragion Yanakovich-Belakovich-Yanikovich (if he raises pensions)Yanukovich Yubkovis Yanukovych Yanukovich Nik...Yanukovych Yukovich Yanukovych Yankovich Yanukovich Yanukovich YakunovichViktor Yakonovich onlyYaku...YakunovichYankovych, Yankovych onlyYanukevichYakunovichYankovichThis...what’s his name…YakuboivichYakubovichYakubovichYakunov...YakunovychYaknukovychYanyukovichThis...Yankevich...or what’s his name?Yanukovych (there’s a million parties out there)Yakunovich-Yakunovich-Yakunovich (Man 2: I voted for him last time — he didn’t make it, and this time... Man 3: For him only! Man 1: Yakunovich! He’s a stable man, he’s a stable man. Last time — last time — he didn’t make it... Man 2: That’s right! There were changes when he was PM — changes for the better.)

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That's right -- the problem of democracy: how people solidify into I-already-know-it rather than keeping an open mind. But it's an international phenomenon: the Americans have the birthers, those who think Obama=Osama, those who say "President Hussein", those who believe he is a Communist, or a Nazi, or a Commie-Nazie, or a Socialist, or that he is changing the country into something thoroughly un-American...

Compared to Russia, Ukraine is a densely populated country. Crimea is not the only Russified region of Ukraine, but it’s the only region where ethnic Russians outnumber ethnic Ukrainians.

I laughed my ass off listening to all these versions. I even thought it was some sort of negative astroturfing. But having interviewed some people on the streets of Kyiv, I can only say you never know.

Lingüista,

Americans can be babes in the woods about many things, including geography. Still, I can’t think of any accurate analogy to this video.

Georgia as well is placed in the same "yellow" category.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/UN_Human_Development_Report_2009.PNGThey don't have commodities of their own, if one doesn't count Azeri oil flowing through pipes on their territory for a source of a serious revenue. :)I for one, think that HDI is more socialist-slanted index, even if such opposite approaches as in the US and Canada are resulted in "dark green".

As for "dictatorship of law" this mem jumped as antithese to both "dictatorship of proletariat of the 80s" and "dictatorship of capital of the 90s" and are not being mentioned so often anymore.A bit off-topic, but when they were opening special economic zone here in Sovetskaya Gavan, it took, the tellie said, Federal legislation change so that this particular regional project could have been realized. If true, this is the way to "the rule of law".